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Oct 7, 2025 The Senate failed again to pass competing bills to end the shutdown Corroborated Institutions and Governance
The repeated deadlock showed Congress unable to perform basic funding functions while public services and workers absorbed the costs.
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- Senate Rejects Rival Funding Bills Amid Government Shutdown — The U.S.
- US Senate Rejects Competing Bills to End Government Shutdown — On Wednesday, the US Senate failed to pass competing bills from Democrats and Republicans aimed at ending the ongoing government shutdown.
- Senate deadlocked over government shutdown
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Week 38 – 2025-10-04–2025-10-10
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Apr 10, 2025 Courts and litigants in multiple federal cases advanced challenges involving deportation, records, education, immigration, and agency control Tier 1 · Primary Institutions and Governance
The filings and rulings showed courts continuing to mediate conflicts over executive power across many policy areas.
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- Lawyers file petition to US Supreme Court to stop execution by firing squad — Lawyers for Mikal Mahdi, a South Carolina death row inmate, have filed a petition to the US Supreme Court to halt his execution by firing squad.
- Case update — Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Md.) 8:25-cv-00951 — On the evening of April 10 the Supreme Court, in a per curiam opinion without any dissent, upheld the district court order in large part.
- Case update — American Oversight v. Hegseth (D.D.C.) 1:25-cv-00883 — Following a hearing, the court ordered the Defendants to provide supplemental declarations to address “specific clarifications” missing from the first round of declarations.
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Week 12 – 2025-04-05–2025-04-11
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